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Distinguished Visiting Scholar Lecture: From Acadians to Cajuns: From The Deportation to the Bayou

Start Date:

10/2/2014

Start Time:

2:30 PM

End Date:

10/2/2014

End Time:

3:45 PM

Event Description:

Learn about the Acadians, from seventeenth-century France to Nova Scotia, where they prospered until the Grand Dérangement, a tragic moment in history of ethnic cleansing or genocide, when British soldiers expelled the Acadians from their homes. Some Acadians fled to other Canadian maritime provinces, such as New Brunswick. However, almost three thousand survivors journeyed through the thirteen American colonies to Spanish-controlled Louisiana where they resettled, intermarried, and became what we now know as the Cajuns. Learn also how the Cajuns have worked hard to preserve their language and culture amidst the onslaught of American popular culture.

Eileen M. Angelini is the recipient of a Canada-U.S. Fulbright award as a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), and has been named Chevalier dans l’Ordres des Palmes Académiques. She received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. Angelini is currently Professor of French at Canisius College.